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.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.