Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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.

You can either go home with enough money or enough excuses, but not both!

Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.

When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.