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

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

We are all older and more tired.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.