Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDAGood cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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.
AGNES VARDAI’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAIt’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.
AGNES VARDAI don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDAThe boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
AGNES VARDAI did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
AGNES VARDAMy company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
AGNES VARDAWhen I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
AGNES VARDAI didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
AGNES VARDAWe need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDAHands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDANostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
AGNES VARDAThe 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.
AGNES VARDAPeople 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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