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

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

"Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a …"

"What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s…"

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

"Cinéma-vérité? I prefer 'cine-mendacity'. A lie is always more interesting than the truth...Fiction may have a greate…"

"I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up do…"

"I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it i…"

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

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