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We did not see ourselves as remaking cinema at the time ... we weren’t inside the star system. We were running around, shooting in the streets, hiding behind trees to do our makeup.

— Anna Karina

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As soon as we were happy, he tried to get at us by another means, another path. He provoked a new ordeal. One could have thought that it bored him, happiness.

Lots of resistance. People really didn’t like it. ‘What is she doing here? This is not her job, she should stay being an actress.’ But I just wanted to see if I could do it, that’s all. And I wrote novels. And did singing – two albums, or did I say that already?

The Guardian interview (2016)

If I write my story, I would tell it as I lived it. I always tell the truth. I am not going to embellish or smear the image.

RFI Musique interview (2018)

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