I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.

Interior liberty is universal.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.