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.

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

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

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

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