Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

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

It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

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.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.