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….

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….

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb..

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important..

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….

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but….

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have ….

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 our….

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film ev….

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 ….

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote..

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

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 ….

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy..

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 ….

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

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 ….

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families..

When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimu….

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me..

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….