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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.

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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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