Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated.

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

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

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.