I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

You can't think of nothing.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

The French are very individualistic.

A good film is also a documentary

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.

Write a daily gratitude.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.