Life has more imagination than we do.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

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

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.