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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.

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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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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.

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