I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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.
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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.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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.
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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.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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