We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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’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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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