I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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