I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

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've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

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