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.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.