This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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With 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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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You have to invent life.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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