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.

Cinema is movement, after all.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

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

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

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