I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.

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.

Celebrate the gift of memory.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.

I don't have to explain anything to anybody.

As for me and my family, we'll worship God.

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.