For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don't care for anything else; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once, and I become melancholy when I cannot go on with my work. I feel then as the weaver does when he sees that his threads have got tangled, the pattern he had on the loom has gone to the deuce, and his exertion and deliberation are lost.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the tr…

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made th…

Mon metier et mon art, c'est vivre.