You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

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.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

May the New Year bring you new strength, new hope and new dreams.

No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

You can't be creative when you're completely happy.

I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.