I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.