Quotes

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

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

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.

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

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're in the street, listening to people, you're forced to be in the service of your subject.

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

Aging for me is not a condition but a subject.

I had flops, I had success.

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

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

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.

Sometimes I do things that are not really the right way because I'm daring, in a way.

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.

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

I saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.

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 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.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.