I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

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.

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

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

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

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.