I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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 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 don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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 a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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