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.

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.

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.

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

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.