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.
AGNES VARDAMy company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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’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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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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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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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