Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

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.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

The cinema is death at work.

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

And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.