Director

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

I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.

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

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

I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, 'You should go to the Cinematheque.' I didn't even know we had one in Paris.

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

Like everybody, I wanted to meet Andy Warhol. I was impressed by his work and how daring he was. I think he changed the cinema completely, simply by opening his camera and letting it go.

I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, 'You should go to the Cinematheque.' I didn't even know we had one in Paris.

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.

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

I had flops, I had success.

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.