When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

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.

The treasures in my house are books.

There is more to life than living to earn money.

You were not created to come to this earth and say "me too I came to live some". You were create to make a difference!

Miranda was dark, like a midnight sky. But as she fell, her eyes shone like stars themselves.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.