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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. |
I wanted to have an international career, which I have, and be free to work with whoever I wanted to work with. My instinct was to go back to France afterwards. I went to do a small film, then I went back and forth. |
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. |
It's difficult to bring the feminine element into these religions and to put an important woman next to Jesus. |
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. |
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. |
Something triggers inside her when her husband focuses on the little girl, ... She feels abandoned. Finding this man who represents unity, being Jewish, solid, family-oriented, it triggers something deep in her that reassures her. And when he changes his focus, she feels completely abandoned. |
The themes have to do with immigration, our past, and are we guilty when we're 6 years old, ... For me, the big subject is not what my husband in the film (Daniel Auteuil) has done as a child, but in not recognizing his fault, he's damaged someone's life. The theme is universal; it doesn't just belong to the French-Algerian past, but triggers something we all can share. |
We're here to be with her, and to help her in a spiritual way. I think our presence here is a way to sustain the possibility of freedom. |
You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And that's difficult. This job is very uncertain, and it's frightening. |