From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.

Youth has become a class.

We’re playing strip billiards.

You wouldn’t ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.