I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
AGNES VARDASociety is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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 my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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