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 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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I 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.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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 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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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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