When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.