An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.