When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice

A splendid sacred season!

I told him your loins were clearly burning, and he should man up and make a move.""You did

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system... Distort the figures

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's at hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.