Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
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.
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.
Is the cinema more important than life?
The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.