Anna Karina: "And Coco Chanel said, 'Who are you?' and I said, 'I'm just me. I'm Anne Karine... And she said, 'You're gonna call yourself Anna Karina."
Meeting Godard: "When the picture (Le Petit Soldat) was finished, I went back to Paris with Jean-Luc (Godard), Michel Subor, who was the main actor, and Laszlo Szabo, who was also in the film, in
Jean-Luc's American car. We were all wearing dark glasses and we got stopped at the border - I guess they thought we were gangsters.
When we arrived in Paris, Jean-Luc dropped the other two off and said to me, "Where are you going?" I said, "I have to stay with you. You're the only person I have in the world now."
And he said, "Oh my God." We took two rooms at the top of a hotel and he went to the cutting room every day." - taken from an interview with Anna Karina conducted by Graham Fuller in Projections 13: Women Film-makers on Filmmaking, edited by Isabella Weibrecht, John Boorman and Walter Donohue (Faber & Faber, 2004).
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