The French are very individualistic.

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.

A good film is also a documentary

what you knowand don’t deny thatyou don’t knowand knowing thisyou knowwhat and whyyou don’t know.Right?

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.