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.

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 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.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

The Repairer is a Restorer.

Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry

Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters.

Those that innovate the future understand history the best.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.