There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

All art is autobiographical.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.