Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.
Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.
Fatherhood is everything I wanted it to be and more. It's an unbelievable experience.
I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.
I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.