The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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 boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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