I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
AGNES VARDAI need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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 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 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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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