it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.