1. “Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.”
2. “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
3. “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
4. “People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.”
5. “I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”
6. “A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.”
7. “Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.”
8. “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
9. “The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”
10. “There’s no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.”
11. “Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.”
12. “I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
13. “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
14. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love friendship can we create the illusion for the moment we’re not alone.”
15. “The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.”
