This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
AGNES VARDAI think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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