Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

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.

When we learn of Him, we see the things that we do wrong, we see what things need to be corrected in our way of thinking and our way of living.

You are my star and you have made me see, ” he tells her, “and I am the air beneath your wings, never rending, never ending.

War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.