The French are very individualistic.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

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.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

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