Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.