One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.