I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.