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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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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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Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform
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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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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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