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.
AGNES VARDAI wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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