I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDAI have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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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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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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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 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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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You have to invent life.
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