If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

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