Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

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.

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

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