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

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

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

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

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.