Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.