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.

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

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

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

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

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.