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 VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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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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 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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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