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.
AGNES VARDAI don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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 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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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