When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.
I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
There's no such thing as an anti-war film.
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.