I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

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.

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.

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!