Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
AGNES VARDAMany filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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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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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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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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