Delphine Seyrig complained that there was so much detail she didn’t have to invent anything. - Chantal Akerman

I think if I knew I was going to do this, I wouldn’t have dared to do it.

Jeanne has to organize her life, to not have any space, any time, so she won’t be depressed or anxious [...] She didn’t want to have one free hour because she didn’t know how to fill that hour.

[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.