You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

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

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.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.