The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.