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.

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

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

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

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.

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.

Is the cinema more important than life?