The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

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.

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.

Everyone has his reasons.

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

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

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.