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

The tree or the road - the ones I know of, finally they are the only characters I know really. The human characters I don't know. So there is both something I know and something I don't know. And I put them together.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

I never read Karl Marx.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.