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… — 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 Image
She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions. — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
