You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
AGNES VARDAYou can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
AGNES VARDAPeople like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
AGNES VARDAI’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 VARDASometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
AGNES VARDAJust yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
AGNES VARDAI tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
AGNES VARDAI’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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 VARDAIf you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
AGNES VARDAI go back to many films that I really love.
AGNES VARDAYou know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
AGNES VARDAI didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
AGNES VARDAHumor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
AGNES VARDAI’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDAI 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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