Shoes have a meaning.
I'm not a tacky person, I think.
Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.
You don't grow up naive in Africa.
I'm tiny. I'm small.
I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.
I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?
Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.
We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.
I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.
Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films.
I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.
There seem to be more women producers than men.
