I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

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

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.