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.
AGNES VARDASociety is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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 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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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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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