Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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 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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I 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.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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.
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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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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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