I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.

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.

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

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

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

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