I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
AGNES VARDAI’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 .
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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