It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

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.

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

You have to invent life.

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

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.