I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.