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 a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

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.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

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!

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!