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

"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."

"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."

"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."

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"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."

"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."