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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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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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