I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

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

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.