You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

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.

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.

The French are very individualistic.

A good film is also a documentary

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

You deserve the love your soul craves for.Don't settle.

Excuses

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn’t talking about him, even when he knows they are.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

I believe that he's a boring fighter.