I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

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