It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.