Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

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.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment?

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.