We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

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

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

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

Fate is written in the face.