Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDAI never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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