I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.