I had flops, I had success.
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.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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’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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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Even 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.
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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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