The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

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.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.