Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDAWhen I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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 need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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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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