Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.
I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
There is this idea that its very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think its different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.
I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
When you watch an audience watching my movies, you realize that nobody laughs at the same time. Some people enjoy a beat, and then another group of people are laughing at a sight gag, and then someone laughs where nobody laughs before. They're not timed like a comedy. You're not supposed to laugh at every joke. You decide.
San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.