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,
AGNES VARDAI 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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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