All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl.

Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent - N'ont pas de perle)

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.