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 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.

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

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 flops, I had success.

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

You have to invent life.