I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDAI didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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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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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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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 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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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 didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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