I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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 .
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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