I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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It 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.
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