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 have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

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.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

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