People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.