It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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.
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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 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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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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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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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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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