The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
AGNES VARDAI’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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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