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

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

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

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.