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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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Discover Incredible Interesting Ordinary People Real Stories Themselves Treasure Way
I had flops, I had success.
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
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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Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.

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