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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

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