This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

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.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

They say you can judge a person by their book, but I say they will hide under the covers.

Expectations are made to be exceeded!

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.