The 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.
AGNES VARDAThe story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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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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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’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I had flops, I had success.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I 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.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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