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.

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

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

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

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films, can think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically, as a poet, a painter, lives, eats, sleeps painting.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

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