It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
AGNES VARDAWith Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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You have to invent life.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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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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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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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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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