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

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

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.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

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.