It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
AGNES VARDAI’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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With 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.
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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 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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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