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

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

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

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

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.

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