It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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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 tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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