All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
There's no such thing as an anti-war film.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
