You have to invent life.

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You have to invent life.

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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.

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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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Brother Courageous Much Way Worked
I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

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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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Capture Regular Something Stories Trying
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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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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Slow Two
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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Feel
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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Saying Seeing Some Thing
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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Contemporary Last Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Other Own Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
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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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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Filmmaker Finished Made Started Wanted
I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Melancholy Nostalgia Some
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’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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Certain Keep Many Star
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.

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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Boundaries Cinema Contemporary Critics Rigid Unbelievable
I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.

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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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Autodidact Aware Learn Some Way Wish
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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Coffee Lot Nothing Rosemary Trying
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Show Thing
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Insect Looking
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.

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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Cinema Fel Here Loved

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