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

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

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

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.