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Quotes by French Authors
"My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience."
"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe."
"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."
"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
"A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key."
"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."
"If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined."
"One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois."
"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
"I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do."
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
"In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous."
"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
"There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality."
"If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"
"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity."
"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."
"A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were."
"The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect."
"We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd."
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