I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
AGNES VARDAIt 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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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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