Agnes Varda Quotes
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
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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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The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. 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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It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
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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. 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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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean. 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. 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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I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
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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. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.