Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

I never read Karl Marx.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.