I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.