I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

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.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.