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.
AGNES VARDAWhen I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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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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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I 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.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I 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.
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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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