You have to invent life.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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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 had flops, I had success.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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