Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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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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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When 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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