I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
AGNES VARDAWhen I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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