I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language..

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin..

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. N….

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only p….

As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but the conceptual content. But at the sa….

I think that the word feminism doesn't imply enough in terms of solidarity with other liberation struggles. I am firmly committed to the notion that ….

A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise ….

You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow seco….

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of making a film can st….

I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't thi….

Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family, make a nest. ….

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one..