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've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

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.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

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'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

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.