Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDAI think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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