Women have always been my best friends.

I do not like producers.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that’s a fairy tale – definitely.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.