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.
AGNES VARDAI didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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To 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.
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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 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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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’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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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