Every time I surrender, even necessarily, to authority which disregardingly or contemptuously violates me, so I violate myself. Every time I break an unnecessary law, doing so for my own joy and to the detriment of no other human being, so I regain myself, and become strong in the parts of me that the security man can never see.
“The excursions that I make are just like children’s games: if you lose, you don’t get punished and if you win, it’s like a party. And even though it makes little or no money, it still doesn’t do any harm. On the contrary, you don’t have to bother with major production costs or poor ticket sales. In the world of cinema money is all that matters.”
Chantal Akerman