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.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

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.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.