I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

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

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

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.