I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDAThe film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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 a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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