Quotes from Catherine Deneuve

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

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.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

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

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

Men are good but women are magic.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.