It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.