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

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.

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

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

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

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.