I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
AGNES VARDAMy company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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You have to invent life.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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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’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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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