Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

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.

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.

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

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's about damned time, " he said in a husky voice. "If I had to wait five more minutes to kiss you, I think I probably would have turned into a dragon myself.

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, " Ringil said quietly.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.