Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

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

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'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

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.

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

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