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

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.