I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
AGNES VARDAI did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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