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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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