I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

I only understand realism.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.