You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
You can't think of nothing.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.