You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.