Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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