It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

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!

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.