People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
AGNES VARDAYou are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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 don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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.
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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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