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.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

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

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema. It was like watching the invention of cinema. But I found out that Pasolini taught me a lot. It was, especially, the kind of respect that he had for reality. He had kind of epiphanies in his movies, like when a moment becomes full of grace, and it is like as if it was the most important moment in the life of a character.