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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.
You live day by day. You can't build your life.
But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
I care about writing music and playing my music.
I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.
I like peace and solitude and silence.
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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Adam Weishaupt
Profession
Clergyman
BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
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Germany
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