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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 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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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