The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Just 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.”
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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 did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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