I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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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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It’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.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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You have to invent life.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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