I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

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.