I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?