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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 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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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 don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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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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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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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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