[on Delphine Seyrig] The French film establishment never forgave her for her outspokenness. If she had not been so beautiful, so aristocratic, it might not have been so bad. But the incongruity between their fantasy of her and what she was- a total feminist activist to the end of her life- they couldn't tolerate that. She was as much of a force in our lives as on the screen, and that's something very rare. Show less «

The jail thing is very, very present in all of my work... Sometimes not very frontally. And the jail is coming from the camps, because my mother was in the camps, and she internalized that and gave it to me. Show less «