In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

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

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.