I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDAI did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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