Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
AGNES VARDAHumor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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