Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

— Catherine Camus

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her,…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they…

— Catherine Camus

Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context.…

— Catherine Camus

We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.

— Catherine Camus

The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in…

— Catherine Camus

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side…

— Catherine Camus

Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher…

— Catherine Camus

Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in…

— Catherine Camus

In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view…

— Catherine Camus

One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want…

— Catherine Camus

Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood…

— Catherine Camus

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for…

— Catherine Camus

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature…

— Catherine Camus

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

— Catherine Camus

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can…

— Catherine Camus

[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad…

— Catherine Camus

What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation…

— Catherine Camus