I don’t believe in learning from other people’s pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

In the twentieth century, the main product of all human endeavors is waste.

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteen century inventented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

A woman with her hair turned up always looks as if she were going some place either to the opera or the shower bath.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

War is war. War is the last refuge of the capitalist. War is stupid. It is all very bad for business.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

If I don’t like somebody’s looks, I don’t like them.