There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

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

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.