I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDAI’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDAYou are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAThe film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
AGNES VARDAThe tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
AGNES VARDAI’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
AGNES VARDATo share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
AGNES VARDAI’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.
AGNES VARDAI was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
AGNES VARDAI think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
AGNES VARDAI don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDAHumor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDABut 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.
AGNES VARDAThere is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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