I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.
I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
It's about paying attention to the little things, the details. . . Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.