You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
You have to invent life.
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.