I 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 VARDAI’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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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’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.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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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.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I 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.
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You have to invent life.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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