If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.