The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.