I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
AGNES VARDAWhen 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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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You have to invent life.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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