Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

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

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to be ruled by the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaohs from Hollywood or wherever. I have tried very hard to make even a small budget picture here. It always fails. Over a dozen times. And now I know why. It was only because I wanted to be in control of the money. To spend it the way I wanted.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.