It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
AGNES VARDATo 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’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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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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’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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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