When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.
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.
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
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.