In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Film lovers are sick people.
Is the cinema more important than life?
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
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.
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
