Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

The father of confederation is deadlock.

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.