Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

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

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

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.