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.

You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

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

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

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