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.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

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 resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

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

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

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.