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.

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

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

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.

I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.