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

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

I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

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.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.