The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality..

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has em….

The revolution is now just a sentiment..

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams..

It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I h….

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time..

In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the present— if rea….

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil..

Death does determine life..

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me….

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists..

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it..

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous..

An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is of….

I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything.….

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the c….

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore a….

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for….

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life..

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to ….

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance..