Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

To be immortal and then die

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell...

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

The children of Marx & Coca-Cola.

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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

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

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’ve always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

Photography is truth.

ALPHA-60: Your name is written “Ivan Johnson,” but it is pronounced “Lemmy Caution,” Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.CAUTION: I refuse to become what...

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

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

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.

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

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.

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...

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

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

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

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.