I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
AGNES VARDASome Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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You have to invent life.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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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