The last film is always the most important.

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

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.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Had the love been permanent, there won’t have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won’t have been bad blood in the family.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

Deep rivers run quiet.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

I like when things happen organically and make sense.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.