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.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
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 VARDASociety is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
AGNES VARDAI didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
AGNES VARDAI don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
AGNES VARDAThe film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
AGNES VARDAI think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
AGNES VARDAGood cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDAGleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
AGNES VARDAPeople think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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 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 VARDAYou have to invent life.
AGNES VARDAYou can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDAIt’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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