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 VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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 never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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