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

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

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.

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.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.