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.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

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

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.