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.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.