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.

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

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

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

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

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