I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

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.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.