In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

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

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

There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.

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