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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone, and I can just use it when I want. I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

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

An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.