Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.
Is the cinema more important than life?
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.
Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.