From the moment I liberated [Brigitte Bardot], the moment I showed her how to be
truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.
The only thing I love in love is all the feelings, the imaginations,
the orgasms of the woman. For this reason I'm not a good libertine.
[on Catherine Deneuve] Soon my shy adolescent had blossomed out into a
hard-headed woman ruthlessly in control of her own life.
[on Kim Basinger] She has this quality -- absolutely indispensable for
an actress, specifically for a beautiful actress -- which is not to
know that she's beautiful.
[on Jane Fonda] She's a romantic pro-Leninist. Unfortunately she's lost
her sense of humor. One day I called her Jane of Arc. She didn't laugh
at all.
[on Frank Sinatra] The charm that once made him irresistible was lost in
the unpredictable whims of a spoiled child.
Women are a problem: if they're intellectual they become aggressive; if not, they're boring.
[on Marcello Mastroianni] He had this huge quality about him of taking seriously what he was doing without taking himself seriously. His humor and tenderness about himself is one of the best and rarest qualities of geniuses.
I have a tendency to enjoy what I am doing and to do what I enjoy.