I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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 not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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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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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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