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Abdellatif Kechiche

This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval].
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Actually Blue Color Producer Talking Warmest
The writing of the script is a continual process. There’s the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
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Continual First Process Script Writer Writing
I didn’t really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.
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Cliche Early Term Thinking
I don’t come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.
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Acted Acting Director Great Job
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
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Challenge Climbing Mountain Ocean
What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It’s in that exchange and that relationship.
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Actor Entvalls exchange Relationship Seeing
I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.
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Exist Grew Identity Up Work
I gave him a bunch of ideas and then Vincent helped guide me and develop this particular film. I enjoy that rapport to have somebody else help guide me in my choices for the next film.
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Actually Blue Film Result Taking Warmest
Every day, there’s that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there’s still that mountain to climb. So it’s not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.
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Challenge Day Mountain One Pressure Tension
I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.
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Choice Development Need Project Sheet Various
When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.
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Adding Come Freedom Mean Scene Want
The poetic way of looking at it is which project is going to choose me as a director.
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Choose Director Looking Poetic Project
My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.
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Black Character Emotionally Indemnity Venus
The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don’t like to use the word “improvise,” but it’s a continual writing of the film.
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Moment Something Truthful Use Writing

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