I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
AGNES VARDAI don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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