Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDAI go back to many films that I really love.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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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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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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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 believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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