Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.