I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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 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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People 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 need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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