You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.
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'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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 shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.
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.
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. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Doing crime films. . . maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.
You don't always have to have the answer to everything.