Occupation: Film Director Birth: February 6, 1932 Death: October 21, 1984
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..
There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors.
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….
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes..
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..
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 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..
Is the cinema more important than life?.
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film..
Film lovers are sick people..
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..
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….
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs..
I warmly recommend to you the films of poets..
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is tha….
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste..
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings..
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting..
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself..
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….