One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvement in the Resistance. He took part, there, in the combat against Nazism.

In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albert] Camus' public. I'm afraid of what will be written in the papers.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

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.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.