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

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

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.

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.

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

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