I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

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

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.