In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

People are always misquoting me.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.