Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDAWith Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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 adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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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 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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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You have to invent life.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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