TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

Living, it can be sad too.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.