I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

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.

If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it.

When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

The more we learn, the more questions arise.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.