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.

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

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

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

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.