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.

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

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

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

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.