- [on Mr. Freedom (1968)] I wanted the film to be seen, to be popular. I would have liked Marlon Brando to play Mister Freedom, or someone like that - Lee Marvin, maybe. And for the girl I wanted a pop singer. But Delphine Seyrig was sitting right there where you are and she saw the scenario and said, "What's this?" I explained and she said, "I can do it!" I said, "What do you mean? You're going to be like a bimbo? You don't care?" "No, I can do it!"
- [on working with Delphine Seyrig in Mr. Freedom (1968)] She was kind of American - she spent the war in New York and she was really as American as a French girl could be. So she dug the whole idea and she was great and very funny and sexy and everything. She was like my sister; I loved her.
- There were things you could do with a camera that you couldn't do with any other medium - grain, contrast, blur, cockeyed framing, eliminating or exaggerating gray tones and so on. I thought it would be good to show what's possible, to say that this is as valid of a way of using the camera as conventional approaches.
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