I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
AGNES VARDAI never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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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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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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 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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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