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

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

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.