What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

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 left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

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

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

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