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 prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

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

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

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

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.