Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

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

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

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

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?