I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should co….

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innoc….

I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pr….

I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopp….

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the au….

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more object….

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring..

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles..

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote..

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that..

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of wor….

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror..

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my….

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy..

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering ….

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wen….

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important..

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside our….

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a doc….

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have ….

I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my….