The 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 company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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 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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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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