It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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