I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 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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