All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

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

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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?