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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"What I am interested in is the present time."
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"Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
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"There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand."
Time
"So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English."
Performance
"You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you."
Change
"Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions."
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"I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too."
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"Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language."
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"As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life."
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