During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

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.

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

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.

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

Life has more imagination than we do.

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