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.
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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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 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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring 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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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