I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

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

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.