I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film..

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat..

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see..

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being diffe….

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes..

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to ….

You have to invent life..

I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean. I think it's ridiculous ….

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 translat….

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell a….

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we ….

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway -….

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't ….

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back..

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever..

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of wor….

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer..

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..

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh ….

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous..

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films..