The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
AGNES VARDAI should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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When 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!
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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Nostalgia 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.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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