I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDAI’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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 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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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