Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

The cinema is death at work.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.