Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDAI’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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