It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

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.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.