One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.

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.

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.