Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship..

My private life has nothing to do with my films..

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done..

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator..

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fair….

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret..