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

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

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

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.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!