The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Moun...