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.

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

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

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

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.