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.
AGNES VARDATo share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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 a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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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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’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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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