I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies and sparkle in its brightness.

Consciousness is the ground of Being.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place

A prince should suspect everything.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.