When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

You have to invent life.

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!