I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
AGNES VARDABut in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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 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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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 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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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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