Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body – both go together, they can’t be separated.
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
The world isn’t a sad place, it’s just big.
I don’t know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn’t be fools.
A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.