Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

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

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

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

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.

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

Cinema is movement, after all.