She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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But 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.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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