Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Film lovers are sick people.

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

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.

Life has more imagination than we do.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.