I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
AGNES VARDAI think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
AGNES VARDAThe story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAI’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
AGNES VARDAI think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
AGNES VARDAAn old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
AGNES VARDATo 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.
AGNES VARDAI was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
AGNES VARDAGood cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDATo change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
AGNES VARDAYou know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
AGNES VARDAIt sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
AGNES VARDAIt’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.
AGNES VARDAWe got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAWhen 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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