I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

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