Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

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.

Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.