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

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

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

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.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

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