I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
AGNES VARDAIf we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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