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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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 started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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You have to invent life.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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.
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