I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

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.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.

Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.

Good is not good where better is expected.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.