When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

To be immortal and then die

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Photography is truth.

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

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.

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