Roger Vadim

“You wouldn’t ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.”

“The most important quality [in a woman] is that she doesn’t know she’s beautiful, or if she does, she doesn’t believe it.  There’s nothing more unattractive - for me - and les sexual than a woman who knows she’s a beauty, who knows men are looking at her.”

“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.”

“Great lovers are such a bore.  And stupid people most of the time.  Limited in the mind.  I’m not a great lover.”

“I shudder at the image they would piece together.”

“I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.”

“We’re playing strip billiards.”