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

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

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