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.

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.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.