Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.

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

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

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.