I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
AGNES VARDAI’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 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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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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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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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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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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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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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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You have to invent life.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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