It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.