There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

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

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

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

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.