People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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