I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

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

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

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