I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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You have to invent life.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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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 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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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