Director

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

I had flops, I had success.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find a structure for cinema. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life.

My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.

When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?

When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find a structure for cinema. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life.

My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn't like it because I don't like names with 'ette' - you know, it looks like a little girl's name.

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

I wore black until I was twenty-five, like many young people. Everybody did. It was crazy! But now, getting older, I think color does me good.

I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.

I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

I didn't have a career; I made films. It's very different.

When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?

I am small. I was always small. But only physically.