I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

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

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.