Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
AGNES VARDASome Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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 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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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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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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 watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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