It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

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.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.