I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.
It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
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.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
The Élysée Palace is a place laden with history. It is a place where power has left its mark - over the course of centuries, ever since the revolution. You just sort of become part of it and continue the history. But, of course, there is a sense of gravitas.
The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.