Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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.

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.

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

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

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.