You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

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

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

We are all older and more tired.

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.