I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

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.