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.

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.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

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

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.

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.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.