Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

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.

Hey, yummy leather guy? Can you hear me? (Amanda)

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.