There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

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.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.