I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDAI never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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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