Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

You need the Spirit of the Lord to come mightily upon you. When He is in charge, your troubles are in trouble.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.

The easiest way to do something is properly.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.