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.
AGNES VARDAIf we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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To 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.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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