The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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 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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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.
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