I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDAWith 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I had flops, I had success.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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