Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

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.

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter