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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.

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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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You have to invent life.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.

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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.

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