One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.

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

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.