The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

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 are very individualistic.

A good film is also a documentary

Develop a vocabulary of uplifting and empowering words for times of uncertainty and upheaval.

A woman may try to control the man. But God appointed man as the head of the family.

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

I think that, as a woman, it's much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.