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

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.

It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.