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Im just saying Im not dead yet, Varda said with typical sangfroid.
Im working on Im doing lectures right now.
Im trying to film the lectures so that well be able to send the film and no longer go.
What Im doing now is a way to escape lectures.
Its like archiving myself.
JR is in San Francisco.
So we did a FaceTime to say we are happy.
Not pretentious but happy.
Its been quite a year for you.
So its an honor for France, I think.
We wanted the film to be loved, end of story.
The film is loved.
So if it is loved by voters also, why not?
Its about empathy and sharing.
So now we share with voters!
But I have a lot of awards.
I dont know if its compensation the money was not there.
I have a full closet.
Youre the oldest nominee in Academy Awards history.
What are your thoughts on being nominated at this age?Im just saying, Im not dead yet.
He did the one about thepublic libraryin New York.
Other people are old.
I filmedManoel de Oliveira, the Portuguese director.
He was 102 when I filmed him.
So lets forget about age.
We are old but still alive.
And still doing great work.Well, I love to work.
I love making films.
I love making documentaries.
Its wonderful and modest work.
We are at the service of the people we film.
Its not our case.
We are go-betweens going between the audience and our subjects.
You feel a sense of obligation to the people you film.Yes.
So we feel modest and work hard to make them be loved.
Are you going to continue to make documentaries?No, no.
Im going to do a film about my lectures.
I work as a visual artist.
So Im doing one or two exhibitions.
So in that case,Faces Placesis your last documentary feature film.
Pretty nice to go out with an Oscar nomination, no?Not bad, not bad.
It fulfills the aim we had.
We wanted to make a film to make the audience love the people we filmed.
We wanted to share the empathy we had for them.
And we wanted to share the desire of sharing.
There is no politics at stake.
Its just meeting people, sharing who we are.
One last question.Ooh la la!
Is there anything in particular you are looking forward to at the Oscars ceremony on March 4?No.
I have my grandchildren the two children of my son Mathieu who live in Los Angeles.
I will be with them until I go to the place of the Oscar.
