We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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 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.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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