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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,

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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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Art Artwork Critic Film Know Time
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
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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture
I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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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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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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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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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
It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it 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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