The cinema is death at work.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

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

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

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.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.