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….

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….

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it..

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

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

I had flops, I had success..

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans..

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

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….

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

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

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I sho….

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some o….

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film..

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….

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 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….

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young..

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a soc….

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four yea….

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 ….