Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

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.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.