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

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.

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

Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show for it.

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?

I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.