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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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 think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

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