I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.