Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.