The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

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.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.