I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

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.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

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

I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.