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.
AGNES VARDAIn 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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