It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

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

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.