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 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.

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

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.

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

I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

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