I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sur….

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist..

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known..

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer..

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features ….

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it..

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet ano….

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something..

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is someth….

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your h….

A film you can explain in words is not a real film..

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy..

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is….

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the s….

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own..

When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. P….

A film that can be described in words is not really a film..

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself….

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go….

The script is simply a series of notes for the film..

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness..