Thomas Bidegain Quotes

#1. Things [only] exist once they are represented.

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#2. Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

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#3. When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

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#4. When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.

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#5. I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

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#6. I think it's great to change - change country, change anything.

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#7. There's a Chinese saying: "The first part that rots is the head." It really does. I've seen it.

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#8. People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.

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#9. Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. It's peculiar.

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#10. That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.

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#11. Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

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#12. It's great to represent things that are not represented.

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