Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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!
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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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.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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