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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Among Like Look Trying Well Without
People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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Connection Established Film People Understand
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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Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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Bringing Everyday Memories Nostalgia Sense Special
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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All Camera Cat Computer Need
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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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
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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Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
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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Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform
When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
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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Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way
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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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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All Hate Myself Nothing Repeat Time
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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Carpenter Direct Director Film Muscle Need Strong
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True

It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

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