I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDAI don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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 did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I 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.
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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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