“It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.”

But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.

I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.

I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.

I go back to many films that I really love.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.

I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to ‘boring’ meetings.

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.

It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.

That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.

Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.