I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.
Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.
Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.
Suddenly, I don’t know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can’t say it. – Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
Every edit is a lie.
Don’t ever promise to adore me forever. Let’s keep the feeling that this love of ours is a love without tomorow.
Humane people don’t start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.
One can enjoy existence, not life.
One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.
The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don’t see why no one’s done it... The movie you’d make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.
There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual.
We’re born in the museum, it’s our homeland after all...
Change nothing so that everything will be different.
I always feel that a man and a woman, who do not like the same films, will eventually divorce.