"I don't take art as seriously as politics."

"I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts."

"The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him."

"A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had."

"I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with."

"We will sell no wine before its time."

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."

"I don't think any word can explain a man's life."

"The basic and essential human is the woman."

"I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions."

"The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can."

"Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of."

"Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars."

"If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'"

"As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect."

"I drag my myth around with me."

"I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays."

"In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night."

"In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night."

"All things must pass."

"My son looks more like George Harrison than I do."

"Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea."

"It's all too much."

"One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright."