I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!