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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.

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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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