I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDAWhen I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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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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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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 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!
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