In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

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.

True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.