Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDAI don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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