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I'm not rich.
I'm not witty.
I'm tiny. I'm small.
I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.
I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.
In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.
Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.
My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.
Shoes have a meaning.
Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.
Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
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