..in every case,some outside event had turned the key on some deep seated memory...each film was a projection of some past experience.

Cinema is a language that literally is spoken from soul to soul in expressions that,almost senuously,escape the restricted control of the intellect.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

We were supposed to collaborate once, and along with Kurosawa make one love story each for a movie produced by Dino de Laurentiis. I flew down to Rome with my …

Ce qui fait le poete, n'est-ce pas l'amour, la recherche desesperee du moindre rayon de soleil d'autrefois jouant sur le parquet d'une chambre d'enfant?

Making movies is a form of narcissism.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.