An online commonplace book
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
– Agnès Varda
I was unsure about why she was celebrated yesterday. Did she pass? Was it her birthday?
No.
On 12.13.2014 Varda received an honorary Lifetime Achievement award from the European Film Academy.
A random choice to celebrate with a Google Doodle, but it is Agnès Varda…
See her Closet Picks here.
My work, come to think about it, does seem often to consist of filming scenes I’ve experienced myself that I want to bring back, scenes I’d like to live through and scenes I’d be afraid to live or relive. With that system, which is worth what it’s worth, once the theme is chosen, the script almost writes itself, and I don’t fuss too much over whatever significance comes out of it.
François Truffaut
Truffaut, François. Truffaut by Truffaut. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1985.
In all my films there are people who send each other letters, a young girl who writes in her diary. Nor can I move from one place to another without a map. That is simply not done anymore, but it’s in my character: to leave even one person uninformed distresses me. The taste for writing has been pursuing me ever since I concerned myself as a critic with the form of the screenplay. I didn’t think I’d become a filmmaker, but rather, a scriptwriter.
François Truffaut
Truffaut, François. Truffaut by Truffaut. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1985.
Floodlights and Goalposts 