The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

If you continue to concentrate so deeply on the negative factors you are unable to acknowledge all the positive results.

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.