It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

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 don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

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

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.