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

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

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

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.