The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went in the world that they were struggling through. I wanted her to have a true function.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.