Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.