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.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

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

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.