I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

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.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.

I'm no longer interested in the possible.

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.