
1. “Life has more imagination than we do.”
2.”There’s no such thing as anti-war film.”
3. “I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you’re not busy enough.”
4. “Airing one’s dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.”
5. “Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.”
6. “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.”
7. “We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.”
8. “In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.”
9. “I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”
10. “Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
11. “Film lovers are sick people.”
12. “There are no good and bad movies only good and bad directors.”
13. “The camera should never anticipate what’s about to follow.”
14. “I warmly recommend to you the film of poets.”
15. “Suspense is simply the dramatization of a film’s narrative or if you will, the most intense presentation possible of dramatic situations.”