What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

Remember, you are not aspiring for perfection, Bombshell. You are aspiring for progress, one step at a time.

you have everything. still, you have nothing . sad .

The whole universe is eager to listen to you

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people!

If you have worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, you've got a different sociopolitical system.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.