I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.