Alice Guy: Self
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Quotes
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Alice Guy : [1964 interview] It seemed extraordinary to me. It filled me with adoration. It was the birth of Cinema.
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Alice Guy : [1964 interview] I would very much have liked to be an actress, because I had friends in theater. But, I had a father that said, "No! Never! Actress?" My father said, "I'd rather see you dead." You know how the bourgeoisie was at the time.
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Alice Guy : [1964 interview] Those weren't really scenarios at that time, they were just little stories that I would make up.
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Alice Guy : [1957 interview] I proposed to Monsieur Gaumont that I shoot some scenes. He told me, "Well it's a young girl's thing indeed. Well, you can try. But on the condition, don't let the mail suffer."
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Alice Guy : [1957 interview] The first films we made always had to have a punchline.
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Alice Guy : [1957 interview] There was a plain field, with a small terrace made of asphalt. We only had a tripod, which served like a photography tripod, that would go in every direction. And there, with my cameraman, I made my first film, which was "La Fée aux choux".
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Alice Guy : [1964 interview] I made the Passion, which was my biggest film in France.
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Alice Guy : [1964 interview] We didn't get married then, but he did ask me at that time. I told him I needed to think about it. I didn't really want to leave France. Actually, I didn't want to marry and Englishman. Englishmen aren't very nice.
[laughs]
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Alice Guy : [1964 Interview] I put notes all over my studio, "Be Natural". It's all I asked of them.
