In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

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

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

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.