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.

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.

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.

To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

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

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.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.