You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
AGNES VARDAThe tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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.
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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.
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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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