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.
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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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 free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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 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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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 boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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