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.

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 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

Anger slowly.Forgive quickly.Trust cautiously.Love easily.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

Failure is but the longer road to triumph.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.