If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

My father’s sister never married in order to raise me.

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That’s important.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Well, you know, I’m much older than I look.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

I don’t know what they’ll say when I die. I don’t give a damn, but they’ll probably cry.

A lot of people are upset that I’m not working. They say it’s a disgrace.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

It’s nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.