Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

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

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.