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

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

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

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

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.

When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.