Agnes Varda Quotes

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• If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Landscape, Ifs

  "Agnès Varda: 'Memory is like sand in my hand'" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2009.

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• In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

  Agnes Varda

  Movie, People, Giving

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• This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

  Agnes Varda

  Cat, Cameras, Needs

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• I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

  Agnes Varda

  Movie, Forever, Cinema

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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 .

  Agnes Varda

  Mirrors, Self, Portraits

  Interview with Liza Bear, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• You have to invent life.

  Agnes Varda

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

  Agnes Varda

  Struggle, Fighting, Cinema

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Being Different, Wish

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Humor, Laughing

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• I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, Careers, World

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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!

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Film, Should

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

  Agnes Varda

  Vagabonds, World, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

  Agnes Varda

  Feminist, Bores

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

  Agnes Varda

  Mean, Reality, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

  Agnes Varda

  Real, People, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  Ghouls, Film, Made

  Agnès Varda, T. Jefferson Kline (2013). “Agnès Varda: Interviews”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Humor, Answers

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• I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

  Agnes Varda

  Struggle, Feminism, Speak

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• 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 Varda

  Mirrors, Self, Portraits

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

  Agnes Varda

  School, Thinking, Cameras

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, People, Different

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

  Agnes Varda

  Artist, Hands, Tools

  Agnès Varda, T. Jefferson Kline (2013). “Agnès Varda: Interviews”, p.200, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

  Agnes Varda

  Jobs, Yesterday, Needs

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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