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

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

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.

I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

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