It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

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've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

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.

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see.

I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!

If you want to use your testosterone to grow hair, that's up to you.

Should have dogs before they have kids. Everybody.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.