Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.