In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.