I did important films when I was very young.

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.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.