If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

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

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

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

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

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