I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

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.

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

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

I had flops, I had success.