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

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.