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

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.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

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