Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDAWith Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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