There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

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

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

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

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.

Film lovers are sick people.