I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

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

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

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.

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.