Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste..

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse..

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die..

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting..

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore..

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they re….

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between..

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her se….

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrill….

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director ha….

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the ligh….

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's jus….

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself..

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors.

Film lovers are sick people..

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film..

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox..

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs..

Life has more imagination than we do..

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it..

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets..