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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes.

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

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

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

Cinema is my home. I think I've always lived in it.

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

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

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

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

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

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

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

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

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

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.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

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 had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

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

Happiness is a beautiful fruit that tastes of cruelty.

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

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

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

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

You have to invent life.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

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