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.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

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

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

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.