I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

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

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

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

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.