"If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses."

"Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it."

"God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again."

"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."

"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the opposite."

"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."

"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."

"The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?"

"Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain."

"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself."

"I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it."

"Cinéma-vérité? I prefer 'cine-mendacity'. A lie is always more interesting than the truth...Fiction may have a greater truth than everyday, obvious reality."

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

"What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist."

"Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream."

"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs."

"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."

"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography."

"Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?"

"Cogitato, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit."

"Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt."

"The valiant profit more Their country, than the finest cleverest speakers."

"Ne male loquare absenti amico."

"Nequam illud verbum‘st, Bene vult, nisi qui bene facit."

"Non tibi illud apparere, si sumas, potest, nisi tu immortale rere esse argentum tibi. Sero atque stulte, prius quod cautum oportuit, postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat."

"Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma."

"Non aetate, verum ingenio apiscitur sapientia."

"Quod tuum’st, meum’st; omne meum est autem tuum."

"Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st."

"Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit."

"[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni."

"Animus aequus optimus est aerumnae condimentum."

"Nam multa praeter spem, scio, multis bona evenisse. At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos."

"Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali."

"Male partum, male disperit."

"Dictum sapienti sat est."

"Te de aliis, quam alios de te suavius est fieri doctos."

"To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy."

"Each man reaps on his own farm."

"Nihil est miserius, quam animus hominis conscius."

"Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres."

"Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi."

"Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !"

"Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet."

"Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit."

"The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless."

"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."

"Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus."

"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."

"Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem."