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You have to invent life.
I had flops, I had success.
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
Aging for me is not a condition but a subject.
I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.
My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream.
I am small. I was always small. But only physically.
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
When artists die early, they become idols even more.
Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
I didn't have a career; I made films. It's very different.
I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.
At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
Sometimes I do things that are not really the right way because I'm daring, in a way.
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.
I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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 saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.
I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.