[On directing Jeanne Dielman aged 25.] It’s not very modest of me, but I’m still so proud I did it at that age. - Chantal Akerman

A lot of it came unconsciously. [...] When I wrote it, it ran like a river.

She never wanted to speak about Auschwitz. [...] I asked her once to tell me more, and she said, 'No, I will get crazy.' So we could speak around, or after, or before, but the real moment, never. Not directly.

[A male client of the lead character, a part-time prostitute, is stabbed with scissors near the end of the film.] In most movies you have crashes or accidents or things out of the ordinary, so the viewer is distracted from his own life. [...] This film is about his own life.