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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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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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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 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.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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