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

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.

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

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.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

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

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