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

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

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

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.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.