All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. 
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. 
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. 
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. 
No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. 
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images 
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. 
Never trust a woman who doesn't like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed. 
Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. 
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. 
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. 
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set 
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. 
The visionary is the only realist. 
Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken. 
I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other. 
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something. 
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. 
Fate is written in the face. 
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette? 
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. 
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know. 
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. 
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity. 
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. 
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. 
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. 
Censorship is advertising paid by the government. 
The greatest danger for artists is total freedom. 
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician. 
You exist only in what you do. 
According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness. 
All art is autobiographical. 