Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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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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.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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