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 VARDAIt’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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