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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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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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Emotion Idea Life Looking Lot Mean People Share
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Audience Fifty Four Getting Minute Much Nervous
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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Film Love Need Really Watches Year
I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Bad People Saying Seeing Some Thing Women
It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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You have to invent life.
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Discover Invent Life
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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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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Enemy Felt Like Nothing Think Thinking Way Young
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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When 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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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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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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