I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDAI 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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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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I 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.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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