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

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

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.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

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

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

I had flops, I had success.