Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

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 are your own vehicular machinery that ought to propel yourself under guidance of the compass of the Holy Spirit of God. Don't go off the track!

Those that control the definitions, steer the culture as they please.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

Good things come to those with no expectations.

When you go to Hawaii, it's all about "Aloha." It means hello, goodbye and I love you.

We are always on the side of those who speak last.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.