You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
AGNES VARDAIt’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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You have to invent life.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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