Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.