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.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
AGNES VARDAI 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 VARDAI didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
AGNES VARDAHumor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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.
AGNES VARDAI wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
AGNES VARDAI should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
AGNES VARDAI was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
AGNES VARDAThe boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
AGNES VARDAShe almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
AGNES VARDAI have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
AGNES VARDAWe got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAPeople think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
AGNES VARDAThe tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
AGNES VARDAI had flops, I had success.
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