People are always misquoting me.

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

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

I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.