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

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

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

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

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

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.