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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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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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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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