I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

You have mastered the art of discipline when you are able to act according to what you ultimately desire rather than how you feel in the present moment.

Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period.

The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits, it resorts to deficit financing.

So I start my mission- leave my residence Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy.

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?