When 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 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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
AGNES VARDAYou have to invent life.
AGNES VARDAWhen I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
AGNES VARDAIt 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.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAI never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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 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 can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
AGNES VARDAPeople know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDAI’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
AGNES VARDAThe 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.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDAI’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDAI quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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