You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

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

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I had flops, I had success.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.