Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

You see the world much better through a camera.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

His lazy grin incinerated the rest of my heart.

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.