In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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

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.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

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

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.