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.
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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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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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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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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