Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills.

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.