I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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