You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
AGNES VARDAIf you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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 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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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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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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