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

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

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.

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

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.