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.
AGNES VARDAWhen 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 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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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 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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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