I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

Film lovers are sick people.