Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.