I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
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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 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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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When 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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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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