Alain Resnais — French Director born on June 03, 1922,

Alain Resnais was a French film director whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps... (wikipedia)

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
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.
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.