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 VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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