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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Living People Seem Sharing Way Work
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
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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Carpenter Direct Director Film Muscle Need Strong
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Art Boundaries Cinema Contemporary Critics Film Rigid Unbelievable
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Back Come Feel Nostalgia Sometimes Time Want
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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Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Melancholy Missing Nostalgia People Some
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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Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
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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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
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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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
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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Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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Alone Brother Courageous Much Photographer Thinking Way Worked
I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing

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