The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.