Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations..

I would rather be on the set than doing anything..

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth a….

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women..

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot a….

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect..

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends..

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two year….

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are d….

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck..

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations..

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life..

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour….

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable..

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army..

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable..

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of thi….

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong..

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians..

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story..

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone..