You have to invent life.
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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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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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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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