But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
A good film is also a documentary
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.