Roger Vadim

“Fidelity is a gift, not a duty.”

“I didn't invent Bardot. I created a climate.”

“It's always better to be slightly underdressed.”

“To be a film-maker, you have to lead a life with two facets. It's a schizophrenia. You have to be a dreamer, but you must also be very pragmatic.”

“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets.”

“I have always been a man who has been guided by his heart.”

“A film director is a kind of hypnotist who imparts his own dreams to a naive public.”

“I may not have been the best of husbands, but I was not the worst of men.”

“Brigitte [Bardot] was the woman of the future. She was the first to be totally free, and that was a scandal.”

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”