Occupation: Film Director Birth: May 30, 1928
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist..
I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and th….
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that..
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy..
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images..
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling..
I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to s….
I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time..
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feel….
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 i….
I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film ev….
I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wen….
I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innoc….
I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not su….
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back..
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we ….
If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer..
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't ….
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean. I think it's ridiculous ….
Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of wor….
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous..