I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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