I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

The French are very individualistic.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

You can't think of nothing.