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.

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

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.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.