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

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'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.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

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

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.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.