I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
AGNES VARDAI think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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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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