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.
AGNES VARDAThe 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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You have to invent life.
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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 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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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