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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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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 had flops, I had success.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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