I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
AGNES VARDAYou know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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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 need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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