I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.

People die, but money never does.

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.