Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

We have a serious problem in this country, and that is securing this country and making sure that the rule of law's upheld. And I applaud Arizona in regards to this.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

They may be a little more high brow than we are.

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

The smile of God is victory.

Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.

Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we're supposed to have.

Astrology enables us to feel a connection to this lifetime, as if our existence holds actual weight as thanks to our origination amidst the starry skies.

While grief is fresh every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I feel similar to a lot of people. I don't feel unique. So what I'm trying to do in my films is provide something for people like me, but also a collection of scenes that instigate.

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.