I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

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

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.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

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

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.