I go back to many films that I really love.
AGNES VARDAShe almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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 think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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