The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
AGNES VARDAWe got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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 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 try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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