 A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. |
| It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. |
| Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. |
| It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. |
| No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. |
| A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. |
| There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. |
| The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. |
| Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. |
| Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. |
| All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. |
| You exist only in what you do. |
| Fate is written in the face. |
| A different language is a different vision of life. |
| 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. |
| Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. |
| I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? |
| Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. |
| Experience is what you get while looking for something else. |
| God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. |
