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I was not interested by cinema when I was young.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Cinema Interested Not Interested Young

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Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Even Go Go Home Going Home Mother New New York Paris Saying Sometimes Whenever York

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I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Because Center Left Longer Mother Nobody Now Realized Work

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My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: About Anti-Semitism Away Because Bible Brussels Come Everything Grandparents Had Jewish Knew Lost Much People Poland Run Then Too Too Much Tradition Very Well-Educated Were

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I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Am Even Exile Go Israel Jewish Time Wherever I Am

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I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: About Belonged Educated Educated People Felt First Greece Jewish Know Little Lot Me Never People Put School Talking Traditions Very Were

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I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: All My Life Dear Grew He Life Me My Life Reading Up Very

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When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Also Am Ask Feminist Film Films Make Maker Me People Reply Woman I Am

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I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Am Box Cannot Jewish Just Me Put Woman Writer You I Am

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My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Arrived Auschwitz Back Brussels Died Enough Family Grew Her Just Lot Miles Mother Near Parents She Small Small Town Strangely Taken Town Up Where Which

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Biography

Nationality: Belgian

Type: Director

Born: June 6th, 1950

Died: October 5th, 2015

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