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

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.

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

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

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.

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