I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAI think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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 VARDAWe need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDATo change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
AGNES VARDAI call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
AGNES VARDAHands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDAEven Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
AGNES VARDAYou know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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 VARDAHumor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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