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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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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’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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 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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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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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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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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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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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