I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

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

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

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.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.