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.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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