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

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

Cinema is movement, after all.

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.

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

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.