Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
I dream about doing a film about once a week.
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
I always work with 18 friends.
I am very shy with people I don't know.
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
I usually say I left puberty at 58.
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
I make all my decisions on intuition.
