I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAMy company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I had flops, I had success.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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