I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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