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.
AGNES VARDAI was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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