- [press conference for Bergman Island (2021) at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival] I think, above all, it was the desire to make a film on the topic of creation within a couple - inspiration - trying to understand how it works. It has always seemed to me somewhat miraculous to manage to write a screenplay, to make a film, it's an activity which I always thought was very fragile, very vulnerable. And yet I've made films, so I thought it would be interesting for me to understand why, despite this frailty, there was nevertheless a strength which allowed me to continue to write and to make progress. That was the starting point and I think the film really came together when I thought of the island of Fårö as a possible setting for the story.
- [on Ingmar Bergman] I would probably not have liked to have been one of his women, but then I am very happy he made 60 films that I can watch and enjoy.
- In the stories I tell, the maternal figures are more easily turned towards the future, the paternal figures are more fundamentally melancholic. I feel like I have inherited both. This is the inner tension of my films: the temptation to be self-destructively melancholic crossed with a way of embracing life, of embracing fate.
- [on 35mm film] I have always tried to film reality as it is, lucidly, but trying to make it beautiful. In my eyes, the image from film lends itself better to these efforts. Beyond the material side, what I also prefer about 35mm is the movement, the succession of images specific to film perhaps better translates my relationship to time. As a spectator, I can like everything. But as a filmmaker, I need film in order to be transported into fiction. v
- [intimacy coordinators] So for me, intimacy coordinators aren't necessary. If I was forced to have some kind of virtue police on set, I'd rather not film those scenes. I understand why some people might feel reassured, but it's very far from the experience of my own film sets.
- [why she dates fellow filmmakers] I guess it's stimulating for me to be in a couple with somebody who is also a passionate film lover. It's not a conscious choice, it's just happened that way. I love to have discussions, to share my doubts and fears with the person closest to me.
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