We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

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.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

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

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.