Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. - Jean-Luc Godard

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

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.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.