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.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

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

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

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

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.

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.