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

Is the cinema more important than life?

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

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.

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

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

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