[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they weren't….

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next….

[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in the USSR….

In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albe….

Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that genera….

Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the notes he wrote. You c….

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him..

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Re….

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like tho….

[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved..

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will….

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile..

[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such v….

Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real w….

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism..

During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had s….

Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), ….

[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience abo….

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible..

What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is ….

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, ….