I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
AGNES VARDAPeople 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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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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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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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When 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!
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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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