I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not su….

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….

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….

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

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

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..

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

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….

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feel….

An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it m….

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need i….

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, whi….

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was ….

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist..

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims..

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common….

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the br….

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer..

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans..