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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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