“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.”