Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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