Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

Life has more imagination than we do.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

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

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.