Unaffectionate Quotes

I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

My girlfriend has been the ice.

There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

I'm not a mushy person at all.

It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved.

I am not doting and am not romantic. I can have spurts of romance but am not consistently romantic.

I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

I'm not a sentimental guy.

My mother is not a naturally happy person and is very complex. She won't allow any of us to touch her. Not even my father hugs her. And, as a family, we never kiss each other. Yet we do have a close relationship.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

Some people would say again that my attitudes are cold and cerebral; I suppose if you're thinking about American sentimental movies, I suppose they would be.