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Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself.
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.
When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.
You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.
To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.
On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.
I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.
The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'
The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.
All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.
Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.
There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.
Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.
People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.
I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.
This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.