You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
I had an awful joke about Auschwitz I drove everybody crazy with that joke. But that joke makes me feel good. You know what "cuit" means? When something is cooked. It's a joke like that: "What are the birds doing… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions. — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
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… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in New York,… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
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,… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker does. Because… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
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… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
Look at Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist. She's unbelievable. She doesn't act; she's there. She's great. And you love her… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
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… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
I had an awful joke about Auschwitz I drove everybody crazy with that joke. But that joke makes me feel good. You know what… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive.… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share
