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Quotes by French Authors
"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
"These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls."
"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."
"Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument."
"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
"Weak people cannot be sincere."
"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."
"Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully."
"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
"Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team."
"It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?"
"You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people."
"You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance."
"She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one's childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she has lived a debauched life, married a jailbird or, worse still, a divorced man."
"The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place."
"At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition."
"Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice."
"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
"I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother."
"The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings."
"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him."
"I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government."
"Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."
"I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films."
"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
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