The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
Alain Resnais

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Alain Resnais

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

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
Alain Resnais

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
Alain Resnais

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.
Alain Resnais

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.
Alain Resnais

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