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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.

Giving Movie People

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Ifs Landscape People

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Cameras Cat Needs

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

Cinema Forever Movie

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

Mirrors Portraits Self

You have to invent life.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

Cinema Fighting Struggle

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

Being Different People Wish

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.

Humor Laughing Strong

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

Careers Thinking World

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

Beautiful Film Should

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

Vagabonds Way World

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

Ideas Mean People

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Bores Feminist

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

Interesting People Real

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. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

Mean Reality Trying

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

Answers Humor Strong

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Film Ghouls Made

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Missing Nostalgia People

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

Feminism Speak Struggle