That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

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.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

An idea is a mental spark, a mindset is a mental inferno

To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.