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

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring..

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

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling..

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!.

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen..

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to s….

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 au….

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom..

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….

I cannot say something different to one person and then another..

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and th….

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

I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary..

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my….

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore..

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….

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't th….

I had flops, I had success..

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 should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time..