If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

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.

Gratitude and attitude are not challenges

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

My family is more important than my party.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Hope lights up our darkness.

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.