You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of '68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical - '68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly excited, because when we were going to sleep, we knew we would wake up not tomorrow, but in the future. There was a sense of future that was the result of the mixture of politics, cinema, music, the first joints. And the movies were a very important part of that cocktail.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.