When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.
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Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?
The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.
I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.
I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.
Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.
I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.
Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.
I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.
I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.
I don't work with people who ask me questions.
I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.
I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.
I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
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