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 VARDAMany filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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