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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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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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You have to invent life.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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