I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I was just glad to be going to work again.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Love is a better master than duty.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.