Eric Rohmer

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

I love Hindi films.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.