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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. "
Juliette Binoche
Past
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" In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed. "
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" You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy. "
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" I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask. "
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" I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim. "
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" I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. "
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" I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think. "
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" My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living. "
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" I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way. "
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" 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. "
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" Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women. "
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" But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that. "
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" There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. "
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" I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions. "
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" Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. "
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" I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place. "
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