I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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Sometimes 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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I had flops, I had success.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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