All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

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.

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

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

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

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

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