I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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 have to invent life.
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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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 never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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