I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
AGNES VARDAPeople think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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.
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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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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