You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

I make film to make time pass.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.