I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

Africa has no future.

The world is always in movement.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.