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Chantal Akerman

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school. " He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad. " That was his humor.

Father, Mean, Public, School
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What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it. . . But after that, it's like 5,000 rich people have access to it. A movie, even though it can be a bad movie or a good movie, it is more democratic. The people who buy my films, the people who buy my installations it's sometimes a foundation or a museum. When it's a foundation, it's related to very, very, very rich people - who are your enemies! Your enemies are feeding you. But you're not meeting them. So it's a very strange thing.

Art, Films, Installations, People, Related, Thinking

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.

Exile, Israel, Jewish, Time, Wherever

Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She's from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss. Protestant. They were that type of well-educated people who could recognize a good artist before others, and she was like that. Even if it was against something inside her. Tell me one actress in 1972 in France, except Delphine, at her level, who would love Hôtel Monterey. No one.

Actress, Artist, Family, Good Art, Money, People

I went at 4:30 in the morning to a café 500 meters from my place. And it was another city. . . Totally different than where I go every day. And I said, "God, I will do that again. " That's another subject I want to do. It's my street, suddenly different at 5:00 in the morning. I can shoot for one week. That's enough to make a movie.

Café, Different, Meters, Morning, Said, Week

What I hate in movies is all those people you need. And then I realize I do better when I shoot by myself.

Hate, Movies, People, Realize, Realizing
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