New York has always embraced me.

New York has always embraced me.

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

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'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.

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

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