She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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