On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

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.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three

There is no apology for passion

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

This storm is dangerous

The problem of pretending to be alive.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

A turning point in modern history.

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.