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.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

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.

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