You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

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.

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

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.