You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
The French are very individualistic.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
