Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: "am I doing it right?"

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.