I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAMany filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
AGNES VARDAI did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
AGNES VARDAPeople know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDAI call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
AGNES VARDAWhen 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!
AGNES VARDAI 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.
AGNES VARDAI go back to many films that I really love.
AGNES VARDAIt’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.
AGNES VARDAI’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDAI don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
AGNES VARDAJust 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.”
AGNES VARDAI 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.
AGNES VARDAI don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDAI’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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