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

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

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

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.

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