« I recently realized that this commitment to women was very constant throughout my career. But the interest I had in them was not the object of a particular fight that I was leading for them, I simply found their strength exceptional and I had to bear witness to it. It probably really started with this film that I made on oriental dancers, Les Almées. In dance, women take back possession of their bodies; they also enter into communion with the world, it is also a form of poetry. At the end of the documentary, I film a dancer who has cancer, who is soon to die and who dances, between life and death, on a rock in the setting sun: the dance appears here as a long prayer. It is a prayer like that, a hope of this type that guides my impulses and leads me to do what I do. »