Is the cinema more important than life?

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

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.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.