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.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Art is science in the flesh.

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

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

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.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.