I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

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'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

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

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.