I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
AGNES VARDAMany filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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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 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 wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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