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

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.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

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

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

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.

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