The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely.

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved.

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him.

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

There's no one who can say 'this person is wrong there and right here', and that 'one is right about that and wrong about this'. This is what could allow populations, or even two human beings, to live together. We will only solve problems by the acceptance of, and enrichment by, our differences.