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

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

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.

If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.