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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.

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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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 started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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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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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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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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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