On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

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.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

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