The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.