A good film is also a documentary

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

The French are very individualistic.

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.

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

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

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