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

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.

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 try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

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

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.