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

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

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

There's no such thing as an anti-war 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.

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.