The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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 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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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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