You have to invent life.
AGNES VARDAI didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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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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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself 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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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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