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

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

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

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

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.

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