Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.