Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

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

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

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.

Living, it can be sad too.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.