You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
AGNES VARDAI don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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