There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.