If I'm speaking it means that in one way or another when I say, "I'm cold" it belongs to me: I'm cold. But just by saying this it becomes general.

The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.