I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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