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.
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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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 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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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I had flops, I had success.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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