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

I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.

An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.

There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.

I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.

I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

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

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.

Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

Don King sucks…Don King sucks…Don King sucks.

What’s the use of being Irish if you can’t be thick?

The NBA has a voice that’s why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that’s why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that’s individually represented the individual people – Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.

There are so many things I’ve done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It’s going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.