I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
AGNES VARDANostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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 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 didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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