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

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

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

Beauty is one of the strangest things. It never comes without the pain. But it always comes...eventually.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people

...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.

More than just a big adrenalin rush, it's more like, 'let's explore what's possible in our sport'.