"Finally, I have played many loners who were both cerebral and physical. If I had the energy for it, I would write my two lives, psychoanalyze myself via the psychoanalysis of the characters whom I've played. That could explain why I went in this direction, why different directors employed me in an ultimately similar way. An introspection of myself and of the characters with whom I had a feast, to talk in a culinary way."

 (Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli, attore, regista, sceneggiatore e produttore; Parigi, 27 dicembre 1925 – Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle, 12 maggio 2020)