Laure flammarion biography of william

When people ask, “What do you do?” what is the first thing that you normally tell them?

I usually feel bad because I don’t know what to answer.

In France people like to put you in a box and they want you to stay in that box. When you say that you do many different things they immediately think that means that you don’t do anything well.

Laure flammarion biography of william

That’s really, really a French thing. When I used to live in the U.S. it was very different and I really enjoyed it, because if I said that I was doing five different projects people were immediately super enthusiastic about it.

It felt really good because for years I was suffering in France where people were like, “Either you are a filmmaker or you are a producer or you are a curator, but you can not do both. You need to choose.”

Especially in the French artistic institutions, you need to decide which medium is your medium.

You cannot be a painter and also take pictures,