I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
AGNES VARDASome Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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 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 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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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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