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

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

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 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.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

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