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The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

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I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

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If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

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Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

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Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

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The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

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I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

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If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

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What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

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For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: April 30th, 1952

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