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.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

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.

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

When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself.

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