I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

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

I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.