There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.