People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.

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