But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

You can't think of nothing.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

The French are very individualistic.

A good film is also a documentary

Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.