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 tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

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

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!